The inspiration for the presented work was an investigation by Madou and Wang of UC-Irvine using amorphous carbon pillars as electrodes for a microbattery. These pillars were fabricated in alternating rows of anodes and ...

Bacteria communicate with each other by releasing signal molecules into the environment that travel between cells. When the molecules accumulate, surface receptors detect the signals and trigger pathways that alter gene ...

Ground testing for hypersonic re-entry vehicles is an invaluable methodology to vehicle conception.
The Von Karman Institute plasmatron is a facility that can duplicate the localized aerothermodynamic
properties and ...

Bicuspid Aortic Valves (BAV) is the most common congenital cardiac defect occurring in approximately 1-2% of the newborn population in the USA. This defect results from the presence of two leaflets, typically unequal-sized, ...

Microorganisms respond to environmental stress through several means for survival. This research project aims to engineer Escherichia coli cells to generate heat in response to a cold-shock. Altering a cell’s reaction to ...

Endocytosis is the process by which the cell is able to take up materials from the extracellular space into the cytosol by enclosing it within its cell membrane. Mechanistically, this is often accomplished by a receptor ...

In recent years, the RNA-world hypothesis has become the leading theory for the origins of life. Few researchers, though, believe RNA could have spontaneously appeared out of the primordial soup.
Regardless of the speculation ...

Our task has been to calculate the probability of any two nucleotides pairing in an RNA molecule. When RNA goes into the cytoplasm of a cell, the RNA folds in on itself to a thermodynamically stable state, since unpaired ...

The RoboCup Small Size Robotic Soccer League exists to drive research in robotics and artificial intelligence and the systems which compose those fields. In the Small Size League, teams of five fully autonomous robots play ...

Approximately 225,000 prosthetic heart valves are implanted each year worldwide, and about 50% of these are mechanical heart valves (MHVs). It is well established that present day MHVs are associated with a certain level ...

The Tower is an interdisciplinary research journal for undergraduates of all majors offered at Georgia Tech. The goals of our publication are to:
showcase undergraduate achievements in research, inspire academic inquiry, ...

Individuals suffering from Friedrich’s ataxia, a neuromuscular hereditary disease, have expansions of the DNA triplet repeat GAA/TTC in their genomic DNA. Preliminary investigations into the disease point to the ability ...